Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-15
WEDNESDAY $500. JUNE Is. 1887.
The sherman Leader.

Mr. MURAT UALSTEAD diSclaimS being
the Icafer Of the SHERMAN forces. We beg
Mr. UALSrEAD's pardon for using his name
instead Of that OF bis paper; and we assume
that he will agree that under the circum-
stances 1t i. allowable, not TO say necessary.
for Us TO DO so. 1t is not the Commercial
Gazette alone. nor its many editors
that Mr.. SHERMAN relies upon. 1t
Is the a>tute editOr-in-chicf. And a.
all tic papers mention him wherever
he goes. and Interview him. and report
what he SAYS, We trust &c shall be excused
for OCCASIONALLY calling his name. This, in
reply TO \ little paragraph in the CONNER
Cidf- Gazette.
The Commercial. Gazette comments upon
an srticlc which recently appeared i'll the
Dispatch, but has not word to say az
10 The irreiragsble proof which we @d-
duced 10 show to all the world that the
negro was better treated In the South
thsn IN the North. Therefore. we beg
leave oRce more 10 call our Cincinnati
contemporary attention 10 the Tact that
the negroes remain in Virginia though
they could easily emigratc 10 New York;
that although thousands OF them live upon
the borders OF the free States, as these
used to be styled, they do not go over to
tie other side. They would rather live
with the whites Of NMnia, West Viz
ginia, Maryland, ~ P.ky, than with
the whites OF - Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Indiana, or miE
1t follows that t63k lead life
more sgreeable to their tastes in the South
than In the North. So long as human na-
,uIe shall continue as it q there can be no
successful denial OF the truth OF that in
ference. The negroes prefer the treatment
accorded Ia them in the South TO that ac'
corded 10 them in the North. And it must
be a horrible life that they lead in the North
n il be true. rs our Cincinnati cOntempora
" contends, that in the South they are the
victims Of ga dCSpOtism as relentless and
desperate and better organized than the
slave pOaer" ever was IN ante-bellum days.
II tie negroes deliberately choose to live
undor this "despOtism ~ rather than in the
"iIce Morrill, it would be difficult to find
words sdCquate to the description OF TIE
intol,Tabe wIcncs tha. must be their pOr-
ton in that section OF the Union TO which
even high vsges and free suffrage cannot
induce them 10 migrate.
Think q Il. There are seven millions Of
regrots IN the United states. For twenty
ODD vesr> they have ali been free, and could
st any tire have removed 70 the northern
Ststes. Aud yet today ihrre are SIX mil
liens OF negIoc, living among the fourteen
mi'ljols Of whites 10 tie southern states
and less than one million living among the
foity Millions Of whites in The northern
States. and nearly all OF these latter ne
cToes never lived in the South. This fact
signifies a great deal when we remember
that The negroes are lahorine class and
nearly I'll Of them, North and South, in the
employment OF white. 1t signifies that
they prefer the white employers OF this
section 20 tie white employers OF the nor
tLem section. Ergo, they are better
treated by southern than 10y northern EN-
ployeIs.
We take 1t that our Cincinnati contem-
porary cannot think OF satisfactory an
swer to this argument from facts. one
answer is poss'b!c-namcly, that the negro
ia too big fool to know that be could bet
ter his condition by migrating to the
North. But this answer implies that he
ought not to be allowed to vote anywhere